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Telecommunication! Monkey & Bird Continues!
Friday, August 27th, 2010
Don’t PANIC!!! Monkey & Bird Continues!
Friday, August 13th, 2010
Monkey & Bird is BACK at CO2 Comics! Read the latest from Tina & Joe HERE!
As a bonus, have a look at the sketch for this panel before it had all of those pixels slopped over it:
Girl Talk
Friday, July 30th, 2010
Monkey & Bird by Joe Williams and Tina Garceau continues at CO2 Comics! Read the strip here!
Down In Space It’s Always 1982
Friday, July 16th, 2010
1982 and the my second semester arrived at PCA after a lengthy winter break. The second semester wasn’t as bad as the first. It was still the Foundation program that all freshmen had to go through, but it wasn’t as baffling or mind numbing. We continued drawing from models in drawing class; started doing actual figure sculpting in 3-D, and moved into color theory in 2-D which was fascinating. God help me, I was starting to enjoy it.
I didn’t live on campus and took a bus into Philly from my parents’ home in NJ. There were people I hadn’t seen in a month and it was nice being reunited. I soon found myself back on the 13th floor seeing what the Ducks were doing.
Of course, if I did live on campus, I may have met my wife, Tina Garceau. She was in her second year there at the time, and although we had probably passed each other in the hallways a thousand times, I never met her. She claims she remembers me, but I don’t really remember meeting and speaking with her until we were both out of school. Like two ships passing in the night.
Uber-Geek in Zombie makeup circa 1982
There was a pretty good chance that she would have run away screaming if she did meet me back in PCA. I guess things all worked out for the best.
So what about a new issue of DUCKWORK? We kicked around some ideas. Gerry Giovinco wanted another unifying theme similar to the previous issue. At the time, EC comics were being reproduced in expensive hardbound volumes. Some of them were circulating around the DUCKWORK office and we all marveled at the work of Jack Davis, Wally Wood, Graham Ingels, Jack Kamen, Bernard Krigstein, etc. This gave us the idea of doing a spoof of the old EC horror and crime comics. Being a big horror fan, I loved the idea. We kicked around some more ideas and decided that the unifying theme would be The Philly T-Square Massacre!
DUCKWORK No. 6 jettisoned the notion that it was a school newspaper and the majority of its 12 pages was filled with funnies most of which all tied into the T-Square Massacre theme! Gerry Giovinco’s Star Duck spoofed The Empire Strikes Back; Bill Cucinotta’s Punk Duck taunted the mysterious T-Square murderer: Matt Wagner spoofed Death Wish; John Rondeau did Tales of Suspense; Nickie Boston’s and Anna Miyaji’s Spineless Wonder was offered a good deal on a T-Square by a street vendor; Andrew Maltz was Thinking; William Bryan’s Cat Man was meanaced by T-Square-Headed Sharks.
…and, of course, The Brady’s Last Vacation came to a gratuitously violent and tasteless conclusion. It was a two-parter.
Sheesh! All I can say is thank God for digital lettering!
Well, it wasn’t the greatest work I’ve ever done, but I had TWO installments in that issue of DUCKWORK, and I was a full fledged Duck! If they had a private crapper, I would have had a key! I had ideas for future strips that were going to be bigger and certainly better drawn. DUCKWORK was going to be bigger and better. It was going to be great!
But sadly it was not to be. Issue No. 6 was Duckwork’s Swan Song.
Next Time: Epilogue
Happy Birthday, Captain Visual!
Sunday, June 27th, 2010
Last night we had the pleasure of celebrating author, artist, publisher and balloon sculptor extraordinaire Gerry Giovinco’s birthday! This was the big one – 5-Ooooh!
It was also a reunion of sorts in that I got to see people I haven’t seen in the flesh for a couple of decades. Oh, I’ve written, emailed and phoned folks, but there has never been an opportunity to gather PCA alumni, Duckwork contributors, CO2 Comics contributors, old friends and allies all in one place. It was a great time!
Tina took the opportunity to create a crown for Gerry’s half century which he proudly wore during the festivities.
After presents and cake, Gerry dazzled us with a display of dexterity as he created wonders out of thin latex and thinner air. His nimble fingers formed fantastic hats, creatures and characters in a flash. I knew that Gerry did this as Captain Visual, but this was the first time I’ve witnessed his mad balloon sculpting skills, and I was floored! I particularly like the mermaid he crafted out of three balloons and some deft gestures. Incredible! I guess there is a reason that the guy has written books on the subject!
Gerry crafted this incredible hat for our son Lloyd. Sadly, it did not survive the trip home, but that’s the nature of balloon beasts.
Having looked through Gerry’s books, hats and mermaids are only the tip of the iceberg! There’s a lot more where that came from!
This also marks another anniversary.
CO2 Comics, brain child of the Birthday Boy and Bill Cucinotta, is a year old. Traffic to the site continues to grow and grow. With new additions almost every day and a library of colossal content, CO2 Comics is the hottest place for comics on the internet!
Bird Gets Chatty With Batty Patty
Friday, June 11th, 2010
Monkey & Bird by Tina Garceau & Joe Williams is back at CO2 Comics! Sylvia the Bird meets up with her girlfriend Pat the Fruit Bat and regales her with tales of her romantic rendezvous with Mickey the Monkey. Read all about it HERE!
This particular installment is dedicated to our biggest fan, Patricia Williams! Pat has always been kind enough to comment on our comic in the virtual pages of Facebook. Thanks , Pat. Now you’re a bat!
Sincerest Form of Flattery?
Friday, June 4th, 2010My wife, Tina Garceau, shot this self portrait of herself back when she was attending the Philadelphia College of Art (Now the University of the Arts) back in the early 1980s.
She used to have outrageously long hair which she tacked to the wall for the sake of the photograph. Arty, ain’t it?
I rediscovered the photo as part of a contact sheet and thought it was a fun picture so I blew it up on the scanner and posted it to my Flickr account a couple of years ago.
The fun thing about Flickr is that its a searchable database of pictures. I’ve found great photos and have made friends in the exchange of comments on Flickr’s pages. People can bookmark photos as favorites. It’s really flattering when somebody does, and I was flattered when somebody going by the name nasha lina marked it as a favorite. Today I noticed that this photographer shot a photo similar to Tina’s Hanged. Take a look.
So what did you think?
I thought it was neat that the photo was imitated so I posted a comment with a link back to Tina’s photo. My comment with the link was deleted. At first, as I said, I was flattered, but I got miffed when the comment was deleted. It was no big deal. The only similarities were black and white photography and a tacked up ponytail (although Tina’s photo is a better composition.) So why delete the comment with the link?
Here’s Tina’s photo with some photoshop meddling:
Rumble in the Jungle!
Friday, May 28th, 2010
Monkey & Bird is back at CO2 Comics! Our title critters have had their date – now what? What does the next morning hold? Find out here!
While you’re there, take a look at the fabulous new CO2 home page cooked up by Bill Cucinotta!
SYLG – Over 1,000,000 Served!
Thursday, May 20th, 2010
Our friend and link pimping daddy, Wyatt Earp, is celebrating a milestone - ONE MILLION HITS on his website, Support Your Local Gunfighter. His compulsive blogging and diligent responses to his commenters are pretty darn funny and have rightfully built a faithful band of followers. He’s been good to us, our site, and our comic. Our hats off to him on this auspicious occasion!
Of course, we hope he doesn’t fall into postpartum-like depression after his odometer flips over. Where do you go after a million hits? Now I’m starting to get sad thinking about it. Maybe I should call him to see if he’s all right.
In honor of this momentous occasion, Tina created the above collage illustration using a combination of Photoshop and Illustrator.
Congratulations Wyatt!
Monkey & Bird Sitting in a Tree…
Friday, May 7th, 2010
The romantic adventures of Monkey & Bird continue at the most exciting address for soul staggering sequential art on the internet - CO2 Comics!!! GO NOW! Read Comics!
